If AI is used by “fire and forget”, sure - there’s a good chance of slop.

But if you carefully review and iterate the contributions of your writers - human or otherwise - you get a quality outcome.

Absolutely.

But why would you trust the author to have done that when they are lying in a very obvious way about not using AI?

Using AI is fine, it's a tool, it's not bad per se. But claiming very loud you didn't use that tool when it's obvious you did is very off-putting.